1. Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

2. Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.

Caucasian

(Cau*ca\"sian), n.

1. A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.

2. A member of any of the white races of mankind.

It seems to me that Afro-American does not refer to origin, rather to type, certain kinds of physical features, usually facial, that are taken as having originated - even in a very remote past - in Africa, and that make an individual immediately identifiable, just as a suit might identify somone as a businessperson, or a shaved head as someone who has recently visted a hairdresser.

I don\'t see what\'s wrong with Italo-American, Afro-American etc, becuase it\'s simply a label. It\'s the attitude of the user that\'s significant...and the way the listener imposes his/her own perceptions on the speaker.

We often make distinctions on the basis of colour or very obvious physical features, it\'s natural. And if X accuses Y of being racist for referring to someone as an Afro-American, who\'s really being racist and how can we know? Racism often manifests itself in a kind of extra-compensatory attitude (which is what happens with \'positive\' discrimination in jobs, housing etc). My point is to neither discriminate negatively nor positively is the ideal, to take each person as he/she is...just like a child in its innocence who tends to \'blurt out\' \'truths\' that adults sometimes can\'t handle...

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